Dehradun, Feb. 11 -- The Uttarakhand Cabinet on Wednesday cleared a series of significant policy decisions ranging from strengthening the state's anti-drug machinery and improving wages for forest workers to restructuring health services under the Employees' State Insurance (ESI) scheme and amending prison laws.

In a major push to intensify the anti-drug campaign in the hill state, the cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami approved the creation of a separate institutional structure for the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), which was constituted in 2022.

Till now, the task force had been functioning with personnel taken on deputation from the police force.

As part of the new framework, 22 posts have been created at the s...